Abstract
Faith healing is healing allegedly through spiritual means. Believers claim that the healing of a person can be brought about by religious faith through prayer and/or rituals that stimulate a divine presence and power toward healing disease. In common usage, faith healing refers to ritualistic practices of communal prayer and gestures, such as laying on of hands, which are claimed to mediate divine intervention in initiating spiritual and factual healing.
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Trüeb, R.M. (2015). Epilogue: Faith Healing. In: The Difficult Hair Loss Patient. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19701-2_10
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